From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T22:54:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart(er) platform detection

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mower [mailto:matt.mower@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:16 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Smart(er) platform detection
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I recently got bitten by some code which uses an idiom like:
> 
> if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win/i
>   # windows stuff here
> end
> 
> which is fine until you try it on a machine (like my shiny new
> PowerBook) whose platform string is:
> 
>   powerpc-darwin-8.1.0
> 
> I looked around and couldn't find a systematic solution to 
> getting useful information from RUBY_PLATFORM so I quickly 
> hacked something together which you can find described at:

Please see sys-uname.

Regards,

Dan